5th, 8th class exams to be phased out

Primary education will be imparted in Urdu and English will be taught as a subject

LAHORE: The 22nd meeting of the provincial cabinet at Civil Secretariat on Tuesday approved Parole Act, 2019 and decided to shut down Punjab Bio-energy Company (Pvt) Ltd and Assessment Policy Framework, 2019 of schools education department was also approved.

The meeting presided over by the Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar, also decided to discontinue 5th and 8th class exams in phases. The Punjab Education Professionals Standards Council Bill, 2018 and provision of Urdu medium books to the students of government schools were also approved by the cabinet.

Now, primary education will be imparted in Urdu language and English will be taught as a subject. The meeting approved Punjab Forests Policy, 2019 and also approved to change the nomenclature of district wildlife officer (grade-17) to assistant director wildlife (grade-17). The meeting decided to develop Kalabagh private game reserve in district Mianwali under section 20 of Punjab Wildlife Act.

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On this occasion, the draft of Punjab Wildlife Protected Areas Act, 2019 was also approved. The meeting approved special audit reports of C&W, Housing and Physical Planning, Local Government and Cholistan Development Authority under PM’s Global Sustainable Development Goals Achievements Program for the financial year 2016-18.

Principle approval of constituting Punjab Local Government Finance Commission was also given while the agenda relating to giving state land to DHA Gujranwala was deferred.

A committee headed by Law Minister Basharat Raja will submit final recommendations after going through this matter.

The meeting endorsed the decisions made in the 19th meeting of the cabinet standing committee for finance and development.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 25^th, 2019.